An interesting read that I vaguely remembered came up in my Twatter feed. It was one of those articles predicting doom.
This is my review of Corona Refresca Mas:
The article is here (TW: Salon). Even though it was published by a reliably left wing outfit, it was from 2010 when “reliably leftwing” existed on a binary for me, and likely most of everyone here. A CIA analyst structured the predictions in two scenarios: a 2014 and a 2025. I was more struck by how little of it applies today after a short time.
Let’s see how they did!
Available economic, educational, and military data indicate that, when it comes to U.S. global power, negative trends will aggregate rapidly by 2020 and are likely to reach a critical mass no later than 2030. The American Century, proclaimed so triumphantly at the start of World War II, will be tattered and fading by 2025, its eighth decade, and could be history by 2030.
Thus far I am grudgingly in agreement but I doubt its for the same reasons.
Simultaneously, China’s central bank governor suggested that the future might lie with a global reserve currency “disconnected from individual nations” (that is, the U.S. dollar). Take these as signposts of a world to come, and of a possible attempt, as economist Michael Hudson has argued, “to hasten the bankruptcy of the U.S. financial-military world order.”
So…like Bitcoin? I’m pretty sure no governments outside of El Salvador, are happy about this.
By 2020, according to current plans, the Pentagon will throw a military Hail Mary pass for a dying empire. It will launch a lethal triple canopy of advanced aerospace robotics that represents Washington’s last best hope of retaining global power despite its waning economic influence. By that year, however, China’s global network of communications satellites, backed by the world’s most powerful supercomputers, will also be fully operational, providing Beijing with an independent platform for the weaponization of space and a powerful communications system for missile- or cyber-strikes into every quadrant of the globe.
Meanwhile in 2021, China lost control of an 18 ton rocket that eventually crashed in the Indian Ocean.
Meanwhile, amid soaring prices, ever-rising unemployment, and a continuing decline in real wages, domestic divisions widen into violent clashes and divisive debates, often over remarkably irrelevant issues. Riding a political tide of disillusionment and despair, a far-right patriot captures the presidency with thundering rhetoric, demanding respect for American authority and threatening military retaliation or economic reprisal. The world pays next to no attention as the American Century ends in silence.
By 2020? That “far-right patriot” openly ran on ending wars, but made little progress towards those ends in part to an apparent unelected bureaucratic apparatus that simply chose not to move in that direction. The rest is varying levels of that “far-right patriot’s” inability to navigate the system and being dumb enough to put people like John Bolton in cabinet positions.
By 2025, Iran and Russia will control almost half of the world’s natural gas supply, which will potentially give them enormous leverage over energy-starved Europe. Add petroleum reserves to the mix and, as the National Intelligence Council has warned, in just 15 years two countries, Russia and Iran, could “emerge as energy kingpins.”
LOL. This was written before fracking.
The oil shock that follows hits the country like a hurricane, sending prices to startling heights, making travel a staggeringly expensive proposition, putting real wages (which had long been declining) into freefall, and rendering non-competitive whatever American exports remained. With thermostats dropping, gas prices climbing through the roof, and dollars flowing overseas in return for costly oil, the American economy is paralyzed. With long-fraying alliances at an end and fiscal pressures mounting, U.S. military forces finally begin a staged withdrawal from their overseas bases.
Within a few years, the U.S. is functionally bankrupt and the clock is ticking toward midnight on the American Century.
Sure, but the new extraction technologies lead to oil and gas boom, so we’re doing this by choice.
The rest of this is mostly a laughable attempt to imply we are headed toward impending doom. Ten years later we can only reasonably conclude the one true prophet is Peter Schiff. Even then he’s been making the same reasonable prediction for 20 years so eventually he was going to be right.
What the fresh hell is this? Is it beer? Is it fizzy water? Is it spiked Cool-Aid? I don’t know, but its nice. Agua Fresca is a popular beverage in Mexico and this has a similar quality to it, plus 8% abv. So it treads a line between the white boy summer seltzer and the sugar-laden insanity that is Four Loko. Drink it in a reused big gulp while driving a commercial vehicle, at your own risk.
I was expecting this doom.
I was expecting this one.
Dooooom
*fist bumps scruffy*
The oil shock that follows hits the country like a hurricane, sending prices to startling heights, making travel a staggeringly expensive proposition, putting real wages (which had long been declining) into freefall, and rendering non-competitive whatever American exports remained.
President Bumblefuck is working on that.
Yeah, back when our drinking water wasn’t flammable!
So, instead of making us use our own limes to hide the horrible taste, they just crushed them up and mixed them in for us? Do better, Corona.
There is no beer in this, whatsoever.
I know, I just love dissing on Corona because their beer sucks so bad. Call it artistic license.
LOL. This was written before fracking.
Heh. Don’t worry, Peak Oil is still on the horizon!
…And like climate disaster has been for 70 years. Always around the next bend.
“Making predictions is hard , especially about the future.” – Yogi Berra
I heard he did not say half the things he said
I’m impressed that you know who that is.
why? the internet is full of famous quotes. I have no idea who he was outside the internet quotes as baseball is not a real sport anyways
Good old dyspeptic Pie, our own Oscar Levant.
dyspeptic ? I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous
Too bad you’re not cromulent.
This is bound to cause pericombobulations.
copacetic?
Paging George Carlin…
Oh…and the energy companies are doing a lot of research into obtaining and utilizing clathrates. There is probably more energy available there than in other forms of carbon based fuels.
We have access to plenty of energy for centuries.
Why do you hate Gaia?
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, pestilence, the list just goes on and on.
that is the gays fault
Because she is really, really interested in killing us. Has been, always will be.
Thanks, Suthen. The things I learn here. I had never heard of clathrates, but (temporarily) overcame my inherent laziness to check it out and found this:
http://www.mpi.stonybrook.edu/energy/Clathrates/Clathrates02.pdf?origin=publication_detail
Virtually limitless energy for the foreseeable future? Check.
Harness all this energy to prevent catastrophic climate change? Check.
Seems like an energy resource a climate alarmist should be on board with. Win-win.
The watermelons’ level of misanthropy makes my distaste for humanity look amateurish by compairison. So the goal isn’t solving the problem for them.
This is the real problem we face.
Putting America’s interests as a priority vs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz6VJK3mS08
But…you know…OMB
Bringing Detroit to all of America.
I’m spreading that video around. Thanks!
This was the old model. Using dire predictions to implant panic in the public and gain control of them. Now, they like to just invent crisis and point to it in the present. It allows for almost complete control, right now, and nobody can point back to the stupid shit they said last time. Just don’t try looking behind the curtain, or you’ll get unpersoned by big tech.
the stupid store closest to my house ran out of the beer I usually buy from them ant it annoyed me. It is not the first time and they never run out of any thee beer. The fridge is full of fucking Ursus.
Beer bare but bear beer
Ha!
no idea how other turned to thee
the stupid store closest to my house ran out of the beer
Perhaps shop at a smarter store?
proximity matters
Is that beer garden by you not open? Or is that the store you mean?
I dont have a beer garden near me
*shrug*
Google must have lied to me.
The most recent review was from 2019, and said it was closed up then.
enormous leverage over energy-starved Europe. – well fucking Europe is doing the best it can to get there. moar windfuckingmills
Peak Oil will happen…when another energy source is so cheap that it isnt worth searching out new oil reserves.
And when it happens, no one will care.
or we could run out of rocks
Whatcha talking about? We don’t commonly use drip gas or tractor fuel anymore?
pyrolysis FTW
Now we’re cooking with gas!
https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/05/16/doom-but-now-we-know-when/
Thank you, robc. I will make plans accordingly!
The real question that is on everyone’s mind; when is peak derp?
what if it already happened and we missed it?
Impossible
One could argue with Joe Biden as President, if we’re not at Peak Derp, you can sure as hell see it from here.
I doubt it.
There is no Peak Derp. There’s only Planck Derp, which we can approach asymptotically but never attain.
If space is expanding, the Planck derp is expanding with it? It’s all relative?
There is no peak. It is a plateau that stretches farther than the eye can see.
or we could run out of rocks
Have they no stones to throw?
The real question that is on everyone’s mind; when is peak derp?
Sorry, there is no such thing.
Derp is infinite.
Peak derp is alive and well in the present administration. When you think it can’t get any derpier another pronouncement is made, proving that we are moving closer to peak.
Does calculus provide any methods for calculating the approximate level of derp at a given point in a timeline?
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.” – Some guy with funny hair
More fun with numbers
But a review of proposed spending in Beijing’s latest annual budget and five-year plan indicate that the U.S. faces an enormous challenge merely in keeping up. Here’s a number that is illustrative of the gap: China poured more cement from 2011-2013 than the U.S. did in the entire 20th century.
Numbers from the National Bureau of Statistics show that China spent about $8 trillion on infrastructure investment in 2020. The U.S. spent $146 billion in federal money over the same period. A comparison of 2018 infrastructure spending as a percentage of GDP by 48 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries ranked China first at 5.57 percent compared to 0.52 percent for the U.S.
And China isn’t slowing down. It’s 2021 budget alone allocates $94 billion in spending for “new projects” that include “the development of new infrastructure.” That figure is supplemented by local government special bond issuances that primarily fund infrastructure construction. From January to April 2021, the value of those special bond issuances totaled $36.4 billion.
The Biden plan seeks to play catch-up — with a fraction of the funding — to improve and expand key infrastructure sectors that China has been laser-focused on with vast allocations over decades. One of those is rail, with the Biden plan allocating $66 billion to Amtrak. The lion’s share of that spending addresses various issues, including eliminating Amtrak’s maintenance backlog and modernizing the Northeast Corridor, but will also fund building new long-distance train routes. The White House said the investment will “bring world-class rail service to areas outside the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.”
In contrast, China grew its rail network by 21 percent to 91,000 miles between 2015 and 2020 and plans to build another 31,000 miles of track by the end of 2035. That will put China on a path to surpass the 161,000-mile rail network in the U.S. by the middle of the century.
DOOOOOOM.
Puked up meaningless numbers are meaningless.
Right… they spent 50% of their total GDP (ignoring how true that is) on infrastructure investment alone…
Cmon, if you’re going to lie, use believable numbers.
How much cement that we laid over the last century is still around and in reasonably good shape? How much poured cement in China over the past 10 years is still extant in acceptable shape?
You can totally gauge the overall wealth of a country by how much concrete they poured over the last decade and how much money they spent doing it. It’s not like the couple of hundred years prior to that really matters. Any fool can look and see that the US is nowhere near as advanced as China. China does all of this in the most moral and humane way possible, too. Not like the racist assed USA. Duh.
https://notthebee.com/article/female-weightlifters-respond-to-question-about-their-transgender-competitor-with-awkward-silence
Outstanding, ladies. I’m not sure I could have been as diplomatic.
Heh.
This victory was short-lived when Laurel Hubbard, the 43-year-old biological male, absolutely failed to lift 120kg and then barely lifted the 125kg which led to him being disqualified
This made me smile.
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He doesn’t even
throwlift like a girl!I like this Viktor Orban guy.
Here he is on Tucker Carlson:
https://youtu.be/s01ZL5TnBNY
His polite but obvious disdain for Biden and “liberals” is very obvious.
he is a statist authoritarian asshole overall
I dunno, that is so often code for “this guy realises that culture matters and I prefer selfishly ignoring that fact while society crumbles around me, but hey at least muh purist anarcho-libertarian principles are intact”.
Pretty spicy for a Saturday evening, but there you have it.
If you are looking for anarcho-libertarian I am not it. If by culture matters you mean lots of government funded propaganda than sure.
Yeah I know. I’m just being that guy.
To be fair, so is Angela Merkel.
But I will concede that you have vastly more knowledge of what’s up in central and East Europe.
Was watching that earlier, hypnotized by the polish on the table and Tucker’s lack of socks. I like how VO didn’t react at all when TC reminded him of the thug comment (a probably different 30s video).
How does this Corona Refresca Mas compare to Modelo Chelada Limon y Sal? I’m pretty sure you’ve reviewed that at some point in the past 12 months?
piss comes in different flavors?
Evidently. That chelada concoction is one of the very few beverages reviewed here I have actually tried. It is not great. This sounds worse given the sugar content.
Try taking some vitamin B supplements and get back to me.
Yeah Pie, urine for a surprise.
Yeah… Corona, Land Shark, Miller lite… Don’t get me started on the IPAs!
Once again, Pie is taking the Piss.
One is beer with lime and tomato. The other is not beer at all but a fruity, refreshing beverage.
Thank you.
Cornhole championships live on ESPN right now.
*snicker*
I cant open the cupboard and see the spice Cumin without hearing Beavis in my head.
I understand.
https://icestork.com/product/gadsden-flag-beavis-are-you-threatening-me-shirt/
So good, but there’s little chance I could wear it here without being called a “fascist”.
a possible need here.
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Mechanic customizes car to shoot flames from headlights
That’s some Colin Furze-spec nonsense.
Masks making a come back at Trader Joe’s today. ?
I’m not doing it. Probably still less than half though.
I noticed much more face diapering on my return trip than on my trip out.
Delta variant!!!
Oooga booga!
Why hasn’t Straff our our Pan-Pacific Glibs provided this important Japanese news update ?
Masturbatory aid rocket launches in Japan
Excellent question. I also want to know why Bezos’ rocket looks more like a dick.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/reading-police-attempted-robbery-of-mans-gun-ends-with-multiple-people-being-shot/article_15c075fa-f7a7-11eb-8cc5-1b9e8ef7bf87.html
Reading is a shithole.
The current moment. This is the kind of thing that needs stomping on, hard, with extreme prejudice.
Mechanic customizes car to shoot flames from headlights
No dawdling in the crosswalk!
And you better get moving when the light turns green.
Good news!
State wide mask mandate from our pinko shitbird governor – none of the local businesses are paying attention to it. I ran errands today and no one said anything to me about not wearing a mask. No one else was wearing one either. I guess everyone has had enough of the nonsense plague theater.
This is over when we say it’s over. Mass non compliance is needed at this point.
Meh, they’re trying to force me to actually inject some secret sauce bullshit into my arm. Masks are annoying and useless, untested drugs might do just about anything. It turns out there’s at least three holdouts in my shop. I’m flatly not going to get the shot, so we’ll see if I keep my job or not.
Frankly, we (those on the side of liberty) were caught with our pants around our ankles with this one. We need to be building mutual aid societies and other groups to decouple all the tendrils of life from our employers. There is no reason why employers mandating vaccines should even be a tempting move. We should be in position to walk when they make us sit through some racist DEI presentation, let alone forcing us to inject some sketchy shot into our arms.
Without going into too much detail, I’ve been convinced for a couple years that God has been pointing me in a different direction than my current career trajectory. I’m still not sure that He’s telling me to start building a mutual aid society, but I’m starting to get that feeling of being nudged in a direction.
It’s the fucking low life Garland’s memo. I’m fairly certain Becerra ordered it, too. It’s such total bullshit to use a section explicitly written to ensure informed consent to justify harshly enforced mandates. There’s very little solace in knowing these people are miserable in their general lives. Someone needs to apply some intentional misery to them. THAT would be justified. The S/C is out until October and even then, how long before they can take this up and issue a ruling? And, counting on any court to stop evil is a fool’s errand. It does explain the rapidity of the rollout, though.
We have a local lawyer who seems somewhat liberty minded, who I plan to consult with and hopefully get involved in protecting us from it. When the offender has deep pockets like the city does, maybe it’s worthwhile for a lawyer to take them on. We’ll see on Monday.
I’m under no illusion that we can prevail over the system. Perhaps there will be a few edge cases where liberty wins out, but I think the vast majority are going to be steamrolled. We need to be more resilient to oppression, because oppression is coming.
When management is rattling off a list of punishments for not getting an ineffective and unneeded treatment for a disease I don’t even have and which would be none of their business even if I did have it, oppression is very strongly already here. I can see what you’re getting at, though and I support you. If a plan is formulated and I can help, let me know.
“oppression is coming”
Oh, I think it’s already here.
Ramping up.
We ain’t seen nothing yet.
B-b-b-b-baby we just ain’t seen nothing yet.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/06/reports-white-house-considers-withholding-federal-money-to-pressure-people-to-take-vaccine/
Withholding tax refunds?
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Who was it here who came up with the term “penalvax”?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/07/poll-over-a-quarter-of-americans-not-planning-to-get-vaccinated/
A majority of those surveyed, 60 percent, said they have completed their vaccine series, while six percent said they started the process.
10 percentage points off from the actual statistic. Either people are lying en masse, or the poll is skewed massively.
In my shop, There’s a good amount I have no idea about, but I am certain that 10% of us are not vaxxed. I’m only clear on about half, though. Most people seem willing to at least get it. There’s way more that are not cool with having to disclose it, regardless of whether they have gotten it or not.
Good.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/let-eat-cake-obama-lied-massive-party-tents-set-martha-vineyard-compound-advance-lavish-b-day-bash-saturday/
Completely unsurprised.
I am not one to brag but I am one to brag. I called it on day one of the ‘we will scale it down’. Sure you will cupcake.
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Flathead Valley, Montana crime update!
5:14 p.m. A suspicious male taking photos in the bathroom was just “taking pictures of the tile to capture the face of God.”
Which of you was that ?
Speaking of prophetic declarations…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRKtO9mZND4
From January of this year.
Crisis? What crisis?
More than 18 percent of migrant families and 20 percent of unaccompanied minors who recently crossed the U.S. border tested positive for Covid on leaving Border Patrol custody over the past two to three weeks, according to a document prepared this week for a Thursday briefing with President Joe Biden.
Some flights scheduled to deport migrants had more than 25 percent of passengers test positive before departure, leading Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove those migrants from the flights for quarantine in the U.S., according to the document.
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The Biden administration is considering testing all migrants in Border Patrol custody, according to the second document, but CBP, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, does not currently have the testing capability.
Deputy Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, who will soon take over as chief, told NBC News on Wednesday that such testing would lead to further bottlenecks in the Border Patrol’s facilities.
“As you can see, we’re already overwhelmed,” Ortiz said, standing next to a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, where hundreds of migrants have been held at a time, sleeping on the ground, as border processing facilities are stretched six times past their capacity
On Tuesday, CBP stopped 6,725 undocumented immigrants crossing into the U.S., according to internal data obtained by NBC News, keeping with the daily pace of July, which saw 210,000 total apprehensions, a 21-year high.
If only Comrade Kamala knew.
We had biweekly testing of all of our 4k employees for most of last year. It’s not hard to mass test if you have little concern for the accuracy of the tests, like the city. Although they did proclaim one guy positive who says he got sick afterwards, so not completely a sham.
https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/08/burger-king-investigating-anti-mask-anti-vaccine-message-on-sign-at-michigan-location.html
Moar. We need moar.
For anyone with a still-functioning liver after last night, I will guest host the Saturday Night Live from the Web, It’s GlibZoom starting at 20:00 Eastern.
Wish I could be there for the stellar cold-open you provide, but….work.
Destroy your hepatic system with me in mind.
I’m still hung over from last night, and had choring to do this morning! But I’ll likely be there.
We’re not going to punish you
Federal employees who need to certify their vaccination status under a new policy instituted by President Joe Biden intended to encourage COVID-19 shots will face disciplinary action and potentially criminal prosecution if they lie on the form.
The Biden administration on Friday unveiled the attestation form that employees will need to fill out confirming whether they have been fully vaccinated against the virus, adding legal teeth to the president’s mandate. Federal employees won’t be following the honor system but will instead be required to acknowledge that making a “knowing and willful false statement on this form can be punished by fine or imprisonment or both.”
The Associated Press obtained a copy of the form that was distributed Friday to agency leadership and points of contact for COVID safety protocol implementation.
Under Biden’s policy, those who are not vaccinated or choose not to complete the form will be subject to mandatory mask-wearing and social distancing requirements and will be ineligible for official travel in most cases.
Haha, sucker! Yes we are.
And the punishment for refusing the form?
At my work, not stating is considered the same as being unvaxxed. I suspect the next step will involve relaxed requirements for the vaxxed and tightened requirements for the unvaxxed. Probably start with masks and distancing protocols and increase until they get sued into stopping. The vax has become the symbolic mark of compliance they crave. It matters not that it’s proving to be not very good at what it was claimed to be. It’s very good at separating out the unbelievers. That’s what they are using it for now.
Death.
Its not like the federal government can fire you.
I haven’t found a good mower up here, and the grass was getting pretty long, so I hired a local yard-work business to get the place presentable. A bit ago three Indians (casino, not IT) showed up and boy howdy are those guys hustling. Gonna give ’em an extra twenty bucks each over the quote. Nice to see people hustling at earning an honest living.
Did the same thing for a flooring guy awhile ago — extra hundred at the end of a multi-day job. Worked his butt off and did exceptional work to boot.
“three Indians (casino, not IT)”
Like the update. Will steal.
+1 it is a bit more PC over feather and dot.
“Casino, not Call Center”
Good man. You get more of what you reward and all that.
Nice.
Couldn’t you just get a goat or two?
Whatever gets your…nevermind.
Hustling to earn an honest living… took the wife and two sons to dinner last night. Waitress was terrific, she struck a perfect balance, there when needed (without being summoned) otherwise invisible. When standing at the kitchen entrance, was scanning the room to see if she was needed instead of looking at her phone. Got a VERY good tip.
I was somewhat surprised when #2 son told me afterwards that she was “his type”; she was pleasant enough but not what you’d call a looker. I asked him why, he said he liked her demeanor and how she went about her business. I guess beauty is not merely skin deep.
Larry Elder interviewed on his run for Governor.
He’s getting my vote, and he would likely win in a fair fight. We still have the fake covid rules, so cheating is going to be quick and easy for the left. I’m sure they’ll do it, I just hope they underestimate how many votes they need and lose anyway. It happened to Clinton, maybe it’ll happen here.
My friend is not doing well with her complicated COVID pneumonia. She is on high-flow oxygen, but she is communicating with me. I wish they’d allow visitors.
That sucks. She’s in my thoughts.
Thoughts, prayers, good vibrations…
Sorry to hear that.
Sorry Mojeaux.
Is she still not in the hospital?
I hope she can get through this. Keeping you all in my thoughts.
Yes, I took her to the hospital on Thursday.
Sorry.
Oy. I hope she makes a full recovery.
Sorry
ugh. Best wishes for your friend.
Oh, man. That’s tough. Especially without visitors; sometimes patients NEED visitors to advocate for them!
Praying for a full recovery.
We have Tropical Storm…Kevin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZJZK6rzjns
Heh.
I couldn’t find it on the NHC’s web site until I looked at the eastern Pacific map
Harrumph. Some of us live in the “Central Pacific” map region. Don’t other us you Atlanticist.
Kevin!!!
Be AFRAID
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels an ongoing COVID wave, Bay Area health experts are keeping a close eye on yet another variant: Delta Plus.
“We believe that it’s at least as bad as Delta,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California San Francisco.
“We don’t know if it’s even worse than Delta yet. When I say worse we think about number one: is it more transmissible? Number two, does it evade vaccines? And, number three, does it make you sicker?”
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department has detected 46 cases of the Delta Plus mutation, according to their latest statistics. It is not the dominant strain in the area, however.
Santa Clara County provided KPIX with the following statement: “The County of Santa Clara is currently tracking the Delta variant, and the “Delta plus” variants on our dashboard. Cases of Delta-plus exist statewide and nationwide and there is currently not enough information on these particular variants to indicate whether they may be more concerning than the original Delta variant.”
Be smart, assume the worst. It will kill you all.
If not this time, then next time, for sure.
How long before the Sooper-extra Plus hits? Will we have to wear our underwear on the outside of our clothes to protect us from that menace?
Once, my wife was asked by a waitress, ” Would you like soup or salad?” She said, ” No, just regular salad, not super.”
“Le siècle du COVID!”
Ah, but how we laughed in those days of hopelessness, those nights of hedonic abandon in the bars, speakeasies and dives of the Western world, for soon it would all be over, and eight billion corpses would provide an unending feast for the brute creatures of the world after humans.
So, since TPTB are doing their damnedest to encourage feelings of despair, when do you think they’re expecting the civilization-ending world-spanning civil war?
I’m pretty sure I already ground up and snorted my black pill, so it’d hit me faster and harder. TPTB are far beyond encouraging at this point.
“Delta-plus is not the end of the story. Until more of us get vaccinated we’re going to have these reports of weird other Greek letters and combinations of Greek letters — we might even run out of the Greek alphabet,” Dr. Chin-Hong said. “It sounds like a broken record but we’re going to see these things pop up until more of us are vaccinated to kick them out of our communities.”
“What we can do is get vaccinated and keep ourselves from getting infected. That’s how we stop these viruses from mutating,” Dr. Maldonado said. “We have to just keep these viruses from transmitting so that we will reduce the risk of developing the next variant that could be worse than Delta and we don’t know if Delta-plus is that virus.”
The vaxx is magic. It’s a protection spell.
Okay, Chin Wag.
Drs. Chin-Hong and Maldonado are either morons or were instructed to talk to the readers like they are morons.
What is the media and baby-talk?
Have you heard popular music, nowadays? It’s literally baby talk with a heavy back beat. Fucking kids nowadays.
I thought these variants were invulnerable to the vaccine? Which is it…get vaccinated for a form that is no longer around in meaningful amounts or the vaccine doesnt work for the new extra super transmissible double dangerous variants?
If you are going to lie and have people buy it you need to be somewhat consistent.
Booster shots!!
“What we can do is get vaccinated and keep ourselves from getting infected. That’s how we stop these viruses from mutating,”
Not science.
Want a Nepalese hand cranked Bira gun?
Manufactured in Nepal in 1896/97 and looking as if it came off the pages of a Jules Verne’s novel, the Bira gun was invented by Nepalese General Gehendra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (1871–1905). The design was based upon the American Gardner gun that utilized reciprocating bolts but with notable differences such as the use of an overhead drum magazine that had more in common with the Lewis gun appearing two decades later and a hand crack handle that rotated counterclockwise which was considered more efficient than the clockwise rotation as found on Western designs. Each Bira gun was completely handmade with few parts being interchangeable from one gun to another. In fact, individual screws are often encountered numbered to specific holes.
Some steampunk hipster is going to buy that, I just know it.
Gatling guns are legal to own and not considered fully automatic. I have always been tempted to build one, but the learning curve is so steep and even with the high value it would have upon completion, it still isn’t really worth it.
It depends–if the gun can fire more than once per revolution of the crank, it can be considered a machinegun under ATF’s definition, which references multiple shots per manipulation of the “trigger.” ATF has defined the crank to be the trigger for crank fired systems. So modern copies of Gatling type firearms have a 1:1 gearing between the crank and the firing mechanism.
That’s not what I understood. Each time the crank passes a trigger notch counts as a firing. It’s not a matter of how many revolutions it takes to fire a round, but rather how many rounds are fired by whatever mechanism. If 1/10 of one revolution fires one round, it’s legal despite firing 10 rounds per revolution. If one revolution fired two rounds simultaneously, it would be illegal.
3 day drill weekend in Norfolk. Wheeee….
BTW, I think this came after Sugarfree’s last links post – Just Some Guy breaking down the stupidity of this year’s Tolkein conference – first presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zjdUMTz2Y